Russian apartment block blast kills three, dozens missing - media

The emergencies ministry said the blast, probably caused by a gas leak, damaged 48 apartments.

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Russian rescuers were on Monday searching for people still trapped under the rubble of a city apartment block that partly collapsed in a suspected gas blast, killing at least three, RIA said.

Russia’s emergencies ministry told the news agency that four people had been recovered alive from the nine-storey building in Magnitogorsk, an industrial city some 1,700 km (1,050 miles) east of Moscow in the southern Urals, Reuters wrote.